(Phys.org) —NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has seen evidence of water-bearing minerals in rocks near where it had already found clay minerals inside a drilled rock.
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Google on Monday added views from some of the world's tallest mountains to scenes woven into its popular online map service.
Internet
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The Mars rover Curiosity is sidelined again, further delaying the restart of science experiments, after recovering from a computer problem.
Space Exploration
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(Phys.org) —A new study using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory points to the origin of a famous supernova. This supernova, discovered in 1604 by Johannes Kepler, belongs to an important class of objects that are ...
Astronomy
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One of the most basic laws of quantum mechanics is that a system can be in more than one state – it can exist in multiple realities – at once. This phenomenon, known as the superposition principle, exists only so long as ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 18, 2013
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A simplified version of an artificial cell produces functional proteins and even sorts them.
Bio & Medicine
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After almost four decades of absence from local waters, a special sea slug appears to be making a comeback, and marine scientists at UC Santa Barbara are eagerly anticipating its return.
Ecology
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An admitted online "troll" was sentenced Monday to the maximum prison term under federal guidelines—more than three years—for illegally gaining access to AT&T's servers and stealing more than 100,000 email addresses of iPad ...
Internet
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(Phys.org) —University of Oregon chemists have synthesized organic molecular structures that move both positive and negative electrical charges—a highly desired but often difficult combination to achieve in current efforts ...
Materials Science
Mar 18, 2013
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Millions of birds die in the US each year as they collide with moving vehicles, but things have been looking up, at least in the case of cliff swallows. Today's swallows are hit less often, thanks to shorter wingspans that ...
Plants & Animals
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